Late afternoon and the day
is withdrawing into a chill.
So much more now
lays abandoned
in sad pools of absence.
Overhead,
a tattered spiders web sags
under the weighted
remains of the dead.
Today marks the start
of autumn for another year
and already
a growing emptiness
is being backfilled
with fear.
Categories:
backfilled, absence, autumn, fear,
Form: Free verse
Look around; the Earth is dying;
the whales and elephants crying.
The honeybee has dwindled down,
the Earth is dying; look around.
Plastic pollutes the world's oceans;
brewing up poisonous potions.
Despite organic substitutes,
the world's oceans; plastic pollutes.
Climate change, tomorrow's forecast,
spurred on by greed, present and past.
Today, renewable sounds strange;
tomorrow's forecast, climate change.
We've overfilled all the landfills
and cut down the trees for sawmills.
Garbage dumps have all been backfilled;
all the landfills we've overfilled.
We feign surprise as glaciers melt
at speeds not previously felt.
Because we'd rather believe lies,
glaciers melt as we feign surprise.
Categories:
backfilled, angst, anxiety, change, earth,
Form: Quatrain